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The head of the World Bank on Monday said the U.S. Treasury, not the Federal Reserve, should gain greater power to marshal financial regulation and warned that the dollar's future will "depend heavily on U.S. choices."
Zoellick made no direct comment about Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke or his predecessor, Alan Greenspan. But he did say that all central banks they face "reasonable questions" for failing to prevent asset bubbles and for serious lapses in financial supervision.
The Fed has been widely criticized for failing to act against a bubble in the U.S. housing market, and for an ideological preference for light regulation, although critics say that most of this occurred on Greenspan's watch.
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Bilderberg has had front-men call anew for creating a global currency and establishing major European Union-style regions for the administrative convenience of a planned world government. Both steps were taken in September, one by the new Bilderberg-crowned prime minister of Japan and one separately by the UN.
The Geneva-based UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) called for a global currency in a report made public on September 7. UN countries should agree on a global reserve bank to issue the currency and to monitor the national exchange rates of its members, UNCTAD said. The dollar’s role in international trade should be reduced to protect emerging markets from the “confidence game” of financial speculation, it said.
the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, whose President Robert Zoellick recently warned that the United States should not "take for granted" the dollar's role as preeminent global reserve currency.
Meanwhile at a G20 summit in Pittsburgh last month, world leaders unveiled a new vision for economic governance, with bold plans to fix global imbalances and give more clout to emerging giants such as China and India.
Following the summit, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner repeated Washington's commitment to a strong dollar.
But last week the finance chief was left to watch as traders used The Independent's report as an opportunity to push lower the troubled US unit.
The report "has helped concentrate the minds of traders and investors alike, and has given them another excuse to take the dollar lower," GFT Global Markets analyst David Morrison told AFP.
"Despite what the Fed and other central bankers say, a weaker dollar is desirable because it is necessary to rebalance the global economy.
"As long as the decline is gentle and orderly, then they're happy. But aggressive selling would spook the markets," he added.
Bilderberg Elitest World Bank President Zoellick: Dont Take The Dollar's Sumpremacy For Granted!
The head of the World Bank on Monday said the U.S. Treasury, not the Federal Reserve, should gain greater power to marshal financial regulation and warned that the dollar's future will "depend heavily on U.S. choices."